Read A Rule-Breaking Cover Letter From A Young Eudora Welty

Born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1909, Eudora Welty was one of the greatest writers the American South produced. In 1933, however, she was just a recent college grad, ?six weeks on the loose in N.Y.,? and she needed a job. In pursuit of that, she wrote one of the most charming cover letters I?ve ever read. That letter to the New Yorker breaks all the rules of cover letters: It?s too long, it meanders far from her accomplishments and qualifications, she makes a cheesy pun, she insults her most recent job, and she speaks openly of needing money. But it?s also beautiful and intriguing, and she promises ?I would work like a slave,? which every employer wants to hear.

An excerpt:

I am 23 years old, six weeks on the loose in N.Y. However, I was a New Yorker for a whole year in 1930-31 while attending advertising classes in Columbia?s School of Business. Actually I am a southerner, from Mississippi, the nation?s most backward state. Ramifications include Walter H. Page, who, unluckily for me, is no longer connected with Doubleday-Page, which is no longer Doubleday-Page, even. I have a B.A. (?29) from the University of Wisconsin, where I majored in English without a care in the world. For the last eighteen months I was languishing in my own office in a radio station in Jackson, Miss., writing continuities, dramas, mule feed advertisements, santa claus talks, and life insurance playlets; now I have given that up.

She didn?t get the job, despite warning in the letter that ?there is no telling where I may apply, if you turn me down.? More?s the pity for the New Yorker, but everything worked out fine for young Ms. Welty in the end. She would go on to win a Pulitzer Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and many, many other awards. Oh, and she also had seven short stories published in the New Yorker.

You can read the full letter at the great Letters of Note.

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Death toll rises to 20 in Myanmar religious riots

MEIKHTILA, Myanmar (AP) ? Two days of rioting between Buddhists and Muslims in a central Myanmar town has killed at least 20 and left residents too afraid to walk the streets, a lawmaker said Friday.

There was no immediate sign of fresh violence Friday morning but the town of Meikhtila remained tense and dangerous, said Win Htein, a local lawmaker from the opposition National League for Democracy.

Fires set to Muslim homes continued to burn but angry Buddhist residents and monks prevented authorities from putting out the blazes, he said.

At least five mosques were torched during the violence that started Wednesday, reportedly triggered by an argument between a Muslim gold shop owner and his Buddhist customers. A Buddhist monk was among the first killed, inflaming tensions that led a Buddhist mob to rampage through a Muslim neighborhood.

Meikhtila is about 550 kilometers (340 miles) north of the main city of Yangon with a population of about 100,000 people, of which about a third are Muslims, Win Htein said. He said before this week's violence, the community had 17 mosques.

It was difficult to determine the extent of destruction in the town because residents were too afraid to walk the streets and were sheltering in monasteries or other locations away from the violence.

"We don't feel safe and we have now moved inside a monastery," said Sein Shwe, a shop owner. "The situation is unpredictable and dangerous."

Occasional isolated violence involving Myanmar's majority Buddhist and minority Muslim communities has occurred for decades.

The violence in Meikhtila was the latest sectarian unrest after clashes between Rakhine Buddhists and Muslim Rohingya last year in western Rakhine state left more than 200 people dead and 100,000 homeless.

It is also the latest challenge for the government as it tries to keep peace in the country and navigate the transition from military rule to fledgling democracy.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/death-toll-rises-20-myanmar-religious-riots-051933236.html

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Hyundai teases with Concept HND-9 renderings

Hyundai's HND-9 high-performance sports coupe concept

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Hyundai has released design sketches of its latest concept car ahead of a world premiere at the 2013 Seoul Motor Show later this month. Like the HCD-14 Genesis concept shown in Detroit, the HND-9 concept aims to spell out the company's future design direction for its luxury offerings ? this time with an extra dose of sporty.

The HND-9 is described as "a modern interpretation of a classic premium sports coupe" and apart from the butterfly doors and some interesting curves on all four corners, the renderings suggest the HND-9 leans towards the less radical side of such an interpretation ? which isn't to say it's without appeal.

Technical details are scarce ? rear-wheel drive with a 3.3-litre turbo GDi engine married to an 8-speed auto transmission for a maximum output of 270 kW. That's all we know until Hyundai lifts the lid on the HND-9 in Seoul on March 28.

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'Brain waves' challenge area-specific view of brain activity

Mar. 20, 2013 ? Our understanding of brain activity has traditionally been linked to brain areas ? when we speak, the speech area of the brain is active. New research by an international team of psychologists led by David Alexander and Cees van Leeuwen (KU Leuven ? University of Leuven) shows that this view may be overly rigid. The entire cortex, not just the area responsible for a certain function, is activated when a given task is initiated. Furthermore, activity occurs in a pattern: waves of activity roll from one side of the brain to the other.

The brain can be studied on various scales, researcher David Alexander explains: "You have the neurons, the circuits between the neurons, the Brodmann areas ? brain areas that correspond to a certain function ? and the entire cortex. Traditionally, scientists looked at local activity when studying brain activity, for example, activity in the Brodmann areas. To do this, you take EEG's (electroencephalograms) to measure the brain?s electrical activity while a subject performs a task and then you try to trace that activity back to one or more brain areas."

In this study, the psychologists explore uncharted territory: "We are examining the activity in the cerebral cortex as a whole.?The brain is a non-stop, always-active system.?When we perceive something, the information does not end up in a specific part of our brain. Rather, it is added to the brain's existing activity. If we measure the electrochemical activity of the whole cortex, we find wave-like patterns. This shows that brain activity is not local but rather that activity constantly moves from one part of the brain to another. The local activity in the Brodmann areas only appears when you average over many such waves.?

Each activity wave in the cerebral cortex is unique. "When someone repeats the same action, such as drumming their fingers, the motor centre in the brain is stimulated. But with each individual action, you still get a different wave across the cortex as a whole. Perhaps the person was more engaged in the action the first time than he was the second time, or perhaps he had something else on his mind or had a different intention for the action. The direction of the waves is also meaningful. It is already clear, for example, that activity waves related to orienting move differently in children ? more prominently from back to front ? than in adults. With further research, we hope to unravel what these different wave trajectories mean."

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How do House and Senate budget proposals compare?

How the budget proposals by Senate Democrats and House Republicans stack up over the next decade:

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Total spending

Senate Democrats: $46.5 trillion.

House Republicans: $41.7 trillion.

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Total Revenue

Senate Democrats: $41.2 trillion.

House Republicans: $40.2 trillion.

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10-year Deficit

Senate Democrats: $5.4 trillion.

House Republicans: $1.4 trillion.

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National debt at end of 2023

Senate Democrats: $24.4 trillion.

House Republicans: $20.3 trillion.

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Social Security

Senate Democrats: $11.3 trillion.

House Republicans: $11.3 trillion.

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Medicare

Senate Democrats: $6.8 trillion.

House Republicans: $6.7 trillion.

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Health, including Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program. The House Republican plan eliminates funding for President Barack Obama's health care law and turns Medicaid into a block grant for states.

Senate Democrats: $6.6 trillion.

House Republicans: $4.0 trillion.

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National Defense

Senate Democrats: $6.0 trillion.

House Republicans: $6.2 trillion.

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Income security, including housing assistance, cash benefits and food stamps

Senate Democrats: $5.6 trillion.

House Republicans: $5.0 trillion.

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Interest on national debt

Senate Democrats: $5.2 trillion.

House Republicans: $4.5 trillion.

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Veterans benefits and services

Senate Democrats: $1.7 trillion.

House Republicans: $1.7 trillion.

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International Affairs, including foreign aid

Senate Democrats: $506 billion.

House Republicans: $431 billion.

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Education, training, employment and social services

Senate Democrats: $1.1 trillion.

House Republicans: $906 billion.

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Transportation

Senate Democrats: $919 billion.

House Republicans: $801 billion.

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Agriculture

Senate Democrats: $205 billion.

House Republicans: $196 billion.

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Natural resources and environment.

Senate Democrats: $474 billion.

House Republicans: $385 billion.

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Community and regional development

Senate Democrats: $268 billion.

House Republicans: $88 billion.

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Sources: Senate Democratic and House Republican budget proposals.

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International finance: The end of an era? | The Economist

PAUL KRUGMAN writes:

Let me make a broader point: we?ve now seen three island nations around Europe become huge international banking hubs relative to their GDPs, then get into crisis because their domestic economies don?t have the resources to bail out those metastasized banking systems if something goes wrong. This strongly suggests, to me at least, that we have a fundamental problem with the whole architecture (to use the preferred fancy word) of international finance...

All of which raises the question, is the era of free capital movement just a bubble, fated to end one of these years, maybe soon?

Hm. Well, the world's second largest economy maintains very tight controls over capital flows. The third largest economy is actively engaged in managing its currency. The sixth-largest economy has used capital controls to limit appreciation of its currency. Many of the world's other large economies are part of a monetary union actively experimenting with a handful of financial-repression mechanisms. The International Monetary Fund has taken the official position that the use of capital controls may be warranted as a financial stability tool. And so on. I would say that the era of free capital mobility is definitely on life-support.

Now, many of these policies may be designed to be temporary. And China looks interested in gradual liberalisation of its capital controls. But there are two reasons to think that the trend will continue toward less rather than more mobility. One is that a half-open world is probably not a stable equilibrium. Everyone can hold hands and jump into mobility and create a stable equilibrium that way. But as some defect from that equilibrium openness begins to look much less attractive for the others, who may absorb outsize inflows or outflows, or who may bear the brunt of others' currency manipulation. One might argue that open countries will therefore press others to return to the open equilibrium, but that moves us to the second issue: capital flow restrictions will be very useful to countries interested in using a bit of inflation to chip away at high debt levels. And that includes just about everyone.

Source: http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/03/international-finance

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Cyprus lawmakers reject bank tax; bailout in disarray

NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cyprus overwhelmingly rejected a proposed levy on bank deposits as a condition for a European bailout on Tuesday, throwing international efforts to rescue the latest casualty of the euro zone debt crisis into disarray. The vote in the tiny legislature was a stunning setback for the 17-nation currency bloc, angering European partners and raising fears the crisis could spread; lawmakers in Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain and Italy have all accepted austerity measures over the last three years to secure European aid.

Obama heads to Israel amid low expectations

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - President Barack Obama arrives in Israel on Wednesday without any new peace initiative to offer disillusioned Palestinians and facing deep Israeli doubts over his pledge to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran. Making his first official visit here as president, Obama hopes to reset his often fraught relations with both the Israelis and Palestinians in a carefully choreographed three-day stay that is high on symbolism but low on expectations.

Al Qaeda in Africa says it beheads French hostage: agency

NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's wing in north Africa said it had beheaded a French hostage in retaliation for France's intervention in Mali, Mauritania's ANI news agency reported on Tuesday, citing a spokesman for the group. In what ANI reported was a telephone call to the agency, which has close links to Islamist militants, the commander said Philippe Verdon had been beheaded on March 10 "in response to the French military intervention in the north of Mali", ANI reported.

China's new diplomats signal thaw with Japan, keeping U.S. at bay

BEIJING (Reuters) - New Chinese leader Xi Jinping's appointment of two top diplomats last week displays a desire to repair relations with long-time rival Japan after months of disruption, while keeping the United States and its strategic pivot to Asia at bay. Yang Jiechi, a hard-nosed former ambassador to Washington, has been named the state councilor in charge of the foreign ministry, its top post. A fluent English-speaker, he firmly believes the United States should stay out of regional Asian affairs such as the South China Sea dispute.

Pope sets tone for humbler papacy, calls for defense of the weak

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis set the tone for a new, humbler papacy at his inaugural Mass on Tuesday where he called for the Church to defend the weak and protect the environment. Addressing up to 200,000 people including many foreign leaders gathered under bright sunshine in St. Peter's Square, the Argentine pope underlined his central message since he was elected by a secret conclave of cardinals last Wednesday - that the Church's mission was to defend the poor and disadvantaged.

Alleged chemical attack kills 25 in northern Syria

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's government and rebels accused each other of launching a deadly chemical attack near the northern city of Aleppo on Tuesday in what would, if confirmed, be the first use of such weapons in the two-year conflict. U.S. President Barack Obama, who has resisted overt military intervention in Syria, has warned President Bashar al-Assad that any use of chemical weapons would be a "red line". There has, however, been no suggestion of rebels possessing such arms.

Bombs kill nearly 60 on Iraq invasion anniversary

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - More than a dozen car bombs and suicide blasts tore through Shi'ite Muslim districts in the Iraqi capital Baghdad and other areas on Tuesday, killing nearly 60 people on the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein. Sunni Islamist insurgents linked to al Qaeda are regaining ground in Iraq, invigorated by the war next door in Syria and have stepped up attacks on Shi'ite targets in an attempt to provoke a wider sectarian confrontation.

U.S. working out transfer of Congo war suspect to ICC

KIGALI (Reuters) - The U.S. Embassy in Rwanda was on Tuesday working out the logistics of transferring a Congolese warlord to the International Criminal Court (ICC), a day after Bosco Ntaganda walked off the street to face war crimes charges. Ntaganda stunned embassy staff in Kigali when he gave himself up, a seemingly meek end to a 15-year long career that saw him fight as a rebel and government soldier on both sides of the Rwanda-Congo border.

U.N. arms embargoes don't work, arms treaty needed: rights group

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. arms embargoes inevitably fail because international arms trade is a virtual free-for-all due to the lack of regulation for the $70 billion global weapons commerce, the rights group Amnesty International said on Tuesday. "The United Nations Security Council arms embargoes are always flouted and circumvented and violated because the system of state regulation around the world is not strict enough," Brian Wood, Amnesty's head of arms control and human rights said on the sidelines of a U.N. arms treaty drafting conference.

Rwanda refuses visas for two U.N. Congo sanctions experts

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Rwanda has refused to issue entry visas to two members of a U.N. expert panel that accused Kigali last year of arming rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, describing them as biased, Rwandan and other diplomats said on Tuesday. Several U.N. diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity, disputed the allegations of bias.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ca-news-summary-000945250.html

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